What Does 2 Chronicles 29:28 Mean in the King James?

And all the congregation worshipped, and the singers sang, and the trumpeters sounded: and all this continued until the burnt offering was finished.

2 Chronicles 29:28 · KJV

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King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.

This verse in the Selah Decoded Version

THE KEY

The burnt offering is an ascent, and the congregation’s bowing, song, and trumpet sound continue until that rising is complete.

THE MEANING

Reverence here is a shared, audible, bodily response: the congregation bows, singers sing, and trumpets sound. All of it continues until the ascent offering is complete, holding posture and sound together with what is offered.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

It undoes the belief that worship is only an inward or private feeling: here it takes shared bodily and audible form.

THE ROOT

הָעֹלָה

ha-ʿolah

GROWS FROM

עלה

to go up, ascend

Under “burnt offering” is ⁨עֹלָה⁩ (ʿolah), the ascent offering, from ⁨עָלָה⁩ (ʿalah), “to ascend.” The worship continues until that rising is complete, joining the assembly’s sound to the movement named by the offering.

ALSO GROWS

ʿalah: To rise or go up.

עָלָה

This verb shares the offering’s root and makes its upward movement audible.

maʿalah: An ascent or upward step.

מַעֲלָה

It carries the same root’s sense of upward movement, echoing the offering’s name.

מִשְׁתַּחֲוִים

mishtachavim

GROWS FROM

שחה

to bow down, prostrate oneself

The word rendered “worshipped” pictures the congregation bowing low. Reverence takes a shared posture alongside the singers’ voices and the trumpets’ sound.

ALSO GROWS

shachah: To bow or prostrate oneself.

שָׁחָה

This basic form makes the bodily posture within “worshipped” visible.

hishtachava'ah: The act of bowing down.

הִשְׁתַּחֲוָאָה

It names the posture shared by the congregation in this verse.

THE PATTERN

Reverence gathers bodies, voices, and instruments into a shared offering to God.

Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp.

Psalm 150:3 · KJVPraise takes audible form through instruments, as the trumpet sound does in this verse.

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

Romans 12:1 · KJVThe offering is embodied, as the congregation’s bowing makes reverence bodily here.

By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.

Hebrews 13:15 · KJVPraise becomes an offering carried by voices, echoing the song and sound that continue here.

THE THREAD

And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

Genesis 8:20 · KJV

The Hebrew behind “burnt offerings” here is ⁨עֹלוֹת⁩ (ʿolot), the plural of ⁨עֹלָה⁩ (ʿolah), the same word used in the current verse. Both keep the sense of ascent in the offering’s name, so the singing and trumpet sound continue until that ascent is complete.

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